Like the rest of us, they’re just trying to survive. They are sometimes inexplicable but often sympathetic. They are the enemy without, although they often represent the enemy within. Monster movies are movies about unnatural creatures, usually stemming from supernatural folklore or science fiction, that threaten us with physical or psychological violence. Of course, not all horror movies are monster movies. Besides, all the horror movies people love today wouldn’t exist if these movies didn’t lay out all the groundwork. Classic monster movies may not have been as violent or sensual as the monster movies of today but that doesn’t mean they don’t still have the power to captivate and terrify. This is a catalogue of classic movie monsters, the creatures that kept whole generations awake at night and represented fears and anxieties that still plague humanity today. “Here there be monsters,” declared the old warning, and in this case, they’d be right.
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